science and culture

The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “AI in Collecting” for the National PCA/ACA Conference to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, USA. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “AI in Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their galleries/museums respond to the recent digital shifts and the tectonic evolution of AI technologies.

Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:

Contributions of 4000 words are invited for the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Doctor Who. Under contract with Routledge and edited by Catriona Mills, Russell Sandberg and Marcus Harmes, this large-scale Handbook will be a generational work encompassing all aspects of the global phenomenon Doctor Who. The purpose of the work is to further academic research and the interdisciplinary approach that fuses the exploration of the official and the fan made.

The below table of contents indicates which chapters still require contributors. Please also review the notes below on what the overall focus of each section will be and tailor your abstract to this focus.

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

This collection seeks essays on paleontologists in film, literature, and contemporary media. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of paleontology in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of fictional and/or real-life paleontologists in modern media

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Unquiet Shores: coastal acoustics and the terpsichorean ocean

18-20 June 2025, Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, and Online

https://haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shores-conference-2025/  

                                           INSAP 2025 – Celestial Connections Across Time and Space  

Dates: 8-13 June 2025  
Location: Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK  

Subject Fields: Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Environmental History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Humanities, Literature, Anthropology, Cartography, Geography

Abstract Deadline: 22 December 2024

Call for Papers

Title of the proposed edited collection:

Green Memories: The Temporal and Sensory Landscapes of Plant Life in Cultural Narratives

The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for our 2025-26 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.

Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for its Special Issue: Games and Monetisation.

Guest editor: assoc. prof. PhDr. Jana Radošinská, PhD.

Acta Ludologica (ISSN 2585-8599, e-ISSN 2585-9218) is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal published twice a year in both online and print versions. It focuses on the comprehensive discourse of games and digital games, including theoretical and empirical studies, research results, and their implementation into practice, as well as professional publication reviews and scientific reviews of digital games.

Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for Vol. 8, No. 1, scheduled to be published in June 2025. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2024.

The Conference on BIPOC Game Studies (C-BIPOC)

September 12-14, 2025

Strong Museum of Play

Rochester, NY

The Conference on BIPOC Game Studies (C-BIPOC) is a platform dedicated to exploring the intersection of gaming culture, technology, and the experiences of BIPOC communities worldwide. Our aim is to provide a space for scholars, game developers, industry professionals, and enthusiasts to engage in critical discussions, share research findings, and foster collaboration in the field. The conference is Sept 12-14, 2025 at the Strong Museum of Play .

Call for Papers: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Issue on the History of Medicine (September 2025)

Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025

Publication Date: September 2025

Subject: Call for Papers: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Issue on the History of Medicine (September 2025)

CLASS CON 2025Call for Papers/Voices/Participation 

March 14th and 15h,Bowling Green State University, Jerome Library 

Deadline to Submit Extended to January 1st, 2025 

As class studies are often niche, invisible, or non-existent withinmany cultural studies programs, we hope to draw attention to the discipline and the broader need for class consciousness. By understanding and breaking down the structures and systems that uphold our modern class structure, this conference aims to make meaningful change both in and outside of the academic ivory tower. 

Theorizing Zombiism IV: Fast Zombie/SLO Zombie

California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly)

Department of English

San Luis Obispo (SLO)

California

Provisional Date: 18-19 July, 2025